Nostalgia in politics: Pan-European study sheds light on how (and why) parties appeal to the past in their election campaigns |
Why Venezuela is threatening to annex Guyana’s oil-rich province of Essequibo |
Front pages 📰 9 December 2023 |
Boris Johnson at the COVID inquiry: Sullen, evasive and a danger to democracy |
Front pages 📰 8 December 2023 |
COVID Today 🦠 8 December 2023 |
Boris Johnson faces backlash: Outcry over Downing Street parties |
Boris Johnson: “My mistakes during COVID did not lead to excess deaths” |
Front pages 📰 7 December 2023 |
COVID inquiry: How it works, and when we will know if it is successful |
Why did Keir Starmer pen the ‘Margaret Thatcher’ article for the Telegraph? |
Why the UK economy is in such a state – and even the Labour party doesn’t seem to get how bad things are |
Front pages 📰 6 December 2023 |
Childhood pneumonia is surging in many countries – while the germs causing it are known, the effects of co-infections aren’t |
COP28 president is wrong – Science clearly shows fossil fuels must go (and fast) |
Political fallout: Poll highlights public distrust in Boris Johnson |
Front pages 📰 5 December 2023 |
From I’m a Celeb to Strictly: Public verdict on politicians in Reality TV |
Front pages 📰 4 December 2023 |
Net zero: The Government’s balancing act on climate credibility |
PFAS forever chemicals found in English drinking water – why are they everywhere, and what are the risks? |
Front pages 📰 3 December 2023 |
Why are people still flying to climate conferences by private jet? |
Government extensively profiled NHS doctor who fought for COVID transparency |
Front pages 📰 2 December 2023 |
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Front pages 📰 30 November 2023 |
No turning back: Sunak rejects Von der Leyen’s EU rejoin speculation |
Matt Hancock knew COVID tier system would not work |
Front pages 📰 29 November 2023 |
COP28: Inside the United Arab Emirates, the oil giant hosting 2023 climate change summit |
Front pages 📰 28 November 2023 |
Climate change could lead to food-related civil unrest in UK within 50 years |
Front pages 📰 27 November 2023 |
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Geert Wilders: How election victory in the Netherlands for Party for Freedom fits into a wider picture of European radical-right populism |
Around a million children in the UK are living in destitution – with harmful consequences for their development |
It’s time to limit how often we can travel abroad – ‘carbon passports’ may be the answer |
UK’s new back-to-work plan will make life even harder for disabled people |
Is Javier Milei Argentina’s Liz Truss? |
Front pages 📰 25 November 2023 |
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Look to the mainstream to explain the rise of the far-right |
Palantir’s £330m NHS deal sparks privacy fears and legal challenges |
Front pages 📰 23 November 2023 |
New Argentinian president Javier Milei promises to ‘take a chainsaw’ to the country’s crippled economy |
Front pages 📰 22 November 2023 |
Autumn statement: What to expect, what they’re not saying, and the traps for Labour |
Giorgia Meloni: How the realities of office trumped the Italian prime minister’s radicalism |
Front pages 📰 21 November 2023 |
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From COVID to gastro, why are cruise ships such hotbeds of infection? |
The upshot of ‘He said, Xi said’: More pandas to the US |
Biden’s low approval ratings don’t mean he is bound to lose the 2024 US election – here’s why |
Front pages 📰 19 November 2023 |
New environment secretary’s financial ties to climate denial group funder raise concerns |
Front pages 📰 18 November 2023 |
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Rwanda plan: Rishi Sunak has insisted on pushing ahead – here’s where he could take it next |
What the COVID Inquiry tells us about Brexit |
What Joe Biden’s meeting with Xi Jinping means for geopolitical tensions |
Reshuffling the sleaze |
Front pages 📰 16 November 2023 |
Supreme Court rules Rwanda plan unlawful: A legal expert explains the judgment, and what happens next |
David Cameron: Lessons from other ex-prime ministers who returned to government |
Rishi Sunak’s decision to bring back David Cameron has distracted us all for now, but the long-term strategy is flawed |
Front pages 📰 15 November 2023 |
British prime ministers reshuffle more than other leaders – What the latest changes tell us about Rishi Sunak’s government |
Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, Myanmar… whatever happened to the ‘never again’ pledge? |
Front pages 📰 14 November 2023 |
David Cameron returns: How can a prime minister make someone who isn’t an MP foreign secretary? And what happens now? |
Suella Braverman: How much of a threat is sacked home secretary from the backbenches? |
Rishi Sunak is wrong: We polled the British public and found it largely supports strong climate policies |
Front pages 📰 13 November 2023 |
Front pages 📰 12 November 2023 |
Suella Braverman’s comments comparing Gaza protests with Northern Ireland are a grave misunderstanding of the facts |
The alarming rise of the new fascism |
Front pages 📰 11 November 2023 |
How much income is needed to live well in the UK in 2023? At least £29,500 – much more than many households bring in |
Front pages 📰 10 November 2023 |
Elections yesterday and tomorrow |
Suella Braverman: Why the home secretary can’t force the police to cancel a pro-Palestine march |
Front pages 📰 9 November 2023 |
How Saudi Arabia’s unchallenged 2034 World Cup bid could weaken Fifa’s human rights demands |
Tory donor’s firm secures lucrative PPE storage contracts: The inside story |
‘Conversion therapy’: UK government kicks ban down the road – and there’s a major problem with what’s been proposed so far |
Front pages 📰 8 November 2023 |
King’s speech: What is it, and why does it matter? |
Front pages 📰 7 November 2023 |
Narcissism, immorality and lack of empathy: the dark psychology that can poison elites |
Front pages 📰 6 November 2023 |
Why the attorney general’s power to deal with contempt of court is a conflict of interest |
Front pages 📰 5 November 2023 |
Shifting goalposts and the failure of the Scottish media |
My mathematical model cautions Rishi Sunak against shifting to the right ahead of the next election |
New Labour dominance in the 1990s is now weakening the Conservative voter pipeline |
The ethics of Biden’s ‘America First’ argument for Ukraine funding |
Storm Ciarán is breaking records and research suggests more severe weather in future |
Front pages 📰 4 November 2023 |
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Dominic Cummings has exposed a hole at the heart of the British government – and a glaring problem with the way we choose prime ministers |
Front pages 📰 1 November 2023 |
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People experiencing news fatigue are less likely to be voters |
Front pages 📰 19 October 2023 |
What will happen to the Greenland ice sheet if we miss our global warming targets |
‘We look like a terrible, tragic joke’: COVID WhatsApps show government chaos |
Front pages 📰 18 October 2023 |
Britain’s cosplay with warships and suchlike in the eastern Mediterranean |
Poland votes for change after nearly a decade spent sliding towards autocracy – but tricky coalition talks lie ahead for Donald Tusk |
Hamas and Hezbollah: How they are different and why they might cooperate against Israel |
Front pages 📰 17 October 2023 |
Who tracked UK COVID infections the best at the height of the pandemic? |
Front pages 📰 16 October 2023 |
Xi-Putin meeting: Here’s what it says about their current, and future, relationship |
Brexit has driven the Tory Party mad |
The government quietly ditched its plans to help refugees learn English |
Front pages 📰 15 October 2023 |
Palestinian conflict: How despair can drive people to violence, even if it puts their lives in danger |
Front pages 📰 14 October 2023 |
Why Labour’s plan to ‘rewrite Brexit’ might not be as politically risky as it sounds |
An Israeli novelist on being a good mother and empathetic in hard times |
ZOE Health Study halts its daily COVID estimates |
Hamas: What you need to know about the group that attacked Israel |
Front pages 📰 13 October 2023 |
The cost of living crisis can’t wait for the next election: Three key issues the UK government needs to tackle now |
Front pages 📰 12 October 2023 |
Israel-Gaza conflict: An opportunity for Putin while the world is distracted |
Labour’s immigration policy: Will focus on ‘security’ win an election? |
The Conspiracy Party conference |
Front pages 📰 11 October 2023 |
Hamas has achieved what it wanted by attacking Israel: Terror, escalation, and disruption to the international order |
Front pages 📰 10 October 2023 |
Rishi Sunak packages U-turns as challenges to consensus politics – an improbable effort to rebrand as the candidate for change |
Front pages 📰 9 October 2023 |
No UK politician is calling for a meat tax – but maybe they should |
Front pages 📰 8 October 2023 |
The meat paradox: How your brain wrestles with the ethics of eating animals |
What the decision to curtail HS2 and embrace cars means for the UK’s cities |
Front pages 📰 7 October 2023 |
Rishi Sunak is introducing the polarised climate politics of the US, Canada, and Australia to the UK |
Front pages 📰 6 October 2023 |
What is the 15-minute cities conspiracy theory? |
What Rishi Sunak scrapping HS2 – and promising a new ‘Network North’ – means for the north of England |
Front pages 📰 5 October 2023 |
Suella Braverman warns of ‘unmanageable’ numbers of asylum seekers – The data shows we hardly take any |
Front pages 📰 4 October 2023 |
Discrimination is the biggest career obstacle for women of colour in the NHS |
Front pages 📰 3 October 2023 |
Ed Balls and George Osborne’s new podcast is essential listening – but not for the reasons they think |
Brexit: Unsettled and still not settleable |
Political leaders need a grand narrative – Rishi Sunak’s is a story of decline |
The government debunked a 15-minute city conspiracy... then endorsed it |
Just 11 ‘wealthy’ people prosecuted for tax fraud last year |
Front pages 📰 2 October 2023 |
Suella Braverman is wrong about the UN refugee convention being ‘not fit for purpose’ |
Front pages 📰 1 October 2023 |
Multicultural man, Rishi Sunak |
Nagorno-Karabakh: The world should have seen this crisis coming – and it’s not over yet |
Front pages 📰 30 September 2023 |
Front pages 📰 29 September 2023 |
What a section of the UK’s Sikh community says is happening to it |
Slovakia may be about to elect a government which plans to halt aid to Kyiv |
Front pages 📰 28 September 2023 |
Too often learning ‘British history’ means learning ‘English history’ |
Oys! and Yos! |
Front pages 📰 27 September 2023 |
Does AI have a right to free speech? |
How far will Trump go to be Putin’s friend? |
Rishi Sunak has ripped up decades of cross-party consensus on climate change |
Front pages 📰 26 September 2023 |
Donald Trump’s truth: Why liars might sometimes be considered honest – new research |
It’s limited, but Labour’s post-Brexit policy does offer voters a choice |
Rising costs and delays don’t necessarily mean HS2 is failing |
Ukraine War: Mixed signals among Kyiv’s allies hint at growing conflict fatigue |
Front pages 📰 25 September 2023 |
Age, not class, is now the biggest divide in British politics |
Front pages 📰 24 September 2023 |
How Sunak’s back-pedalling on net zero could damage efforts to decarbonise Britain’s homes |
Front pages 📰 23 September 2023 |
EU Citizens: Cruel and unjust refusals in the EU Settlement Scheme |
Why delaying the ban on petrol and diesel cars won’t slow UK’s shift to electric vehicles |
COVID-19: Free home tests return in the US |
UK Government: Unveiling secret dealings and hidden payments during the Pandemic |
Front pages 📰 22 September 2023 |
Concrete crisis: Officials thought asbestos in schools was safe too – the same mistakes have been made over Raac |
Anti-Net Zero groups welcome Sunak’s green U-turn – As civil servants left in disarray |
Sunak should be wary of backtracking on net zero – What history tells us about flip-flopping on the environment |
Front pages 📰 21 September 2023 |
Front pages 📰 20 September 2023 |
Sunak’s Net Zero policy shift sparks controversy |
RAAC: The list of schools at risk in England |
Tears, compromise, divorce – what it’s like to leave the UK because of Brexit |
Front pages 📰 19 September 2023 |
Why are those lost to COVID not formally memorialised? How politics shapes what we remember |
Front pages 📰 18 September 2023 |
Why taxing ‘junk food’ to tackle obesity isn’t as simple as it seems |
Why the UK’s wealthiest 10% are turning their backs on the rest of society |
Front pages 📰 17 September 2023 |
Libya’s warring governments and the West |
Front pages 📰 16 September 2023 |
Labour’s new take on immigration: What does it mean for Britain? |
Front pages 📰 15 September 2023 |
When is a conspiracy theory not a theory? |
How action over parliamentary spying scandal could affect the UK’s economic relationship with China |
Front pages 📰 14 September 2023 |
Daniel Khalife: Escapes are just one symptom of a failing prison system |
The failure of British Democracy |
Today 🌐 12 September 2023 |
Front pages 📰 12 September 2023 |
On this day... 12 September |
‘9/11 is becoming an exercise in forgetting’ |
Front pages 📰 11 September 2023 |
On this day... 11 September |
The UK has joined the EU’s Horizon science funding scheme – but if we want the UK to lead, the hard work has just begun |
The Government and the contaminated chicken: When safety takes a back seat |
Front pages 📰 10 September 2023 |
Today 🌐 10 September 2023 |
On this day... 10 September |
Front pages 📰 9 September 2023 |
Today 🌐 9 September 2023 |
On this day... 9 September |
From SpaceX to geopolitics: Did Elon Musk sabotage Ukraine? |
Front pages 📰 8 September 2023 |
Is the G20 in trouble? |
The Conservatives have seized on cars as a political wedge – it’s a bet on the public turning against climate action |
The UK economy’s COVID bounceback was stronger than we thought – but here’s why people are still feeling financial pain |
Front pages 📰 7 September 2023 |
PMP Today 🌐 7 September 2023 |
School concrete crisis: How RAAC has been used well beyond its expiry date |
Concrete in schools: How missing data and poor funding contributed to today’s closures |
Front pages 📰 6 September 2023 |
PMP Today 🌐 6 September 2023 |
NHS hospitals on high alert: Prepare for possible evacuation if structural integrity is compromised |
School repair crisis: Rishi Sunak under fire |
Net zero minister linked to oil-funded group that targeted climate protesters |
Front pages 📰 5 September 2023 |
PMP Today 🌐 5 September 2023 |
Poverty in Britain is firmly linked to the country’s mountain of private wealth – Labour must address this growing inequality |
Ukraine war: Two good reasons the world should worry about Russia’s arms purchases from North Korea |
Al-Fayed simply lived in the wrong era of British politics |
Beating drought with innovation in Namibia |
Front pages 📰 4 September 2023 |
What a Labour government would mean for the right to roam |
PMP Today 🌐 4 September 2023 |
Front pages 📰 3 September 2023 |
Tory MP’s historic family links to slavery raise questions about Britain’s position on reparations |
Front pages 📰 2 September 2023 |
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Front pages 📰 31 August 2023 |
Labour and Google: A curious connection |
Front pages 📰 30 August 2023 |
Don’t look there: How politicians divert our attention from climate protesters’ claims |
India has landed on the Moon: Political and economic gains |
‘When you get status the struggle doesn’t end’ — What it’s like to be a new refugee in the UK |
Trump totally vindicated? |
Is Rishi Sunak a lame duck? With MPs divided and rebelling, a sense of decline hangs heavy in the air |
Front pages 📰 28 August 2023 |
Hotels and employment aren’t major ‘pull factors’ for refugees |
There’s no age limit for politicians − As people live longer, should that change? |
Deportations in Europe: The numbers, the trends, and what they mean |
Front pages 📰 27 August 2023 |
Energy price cap: A targeted ‘social tariff’ must be part of a much wider set of reforms |
Trump out on bail – a criminal justice expert explains the system of cash bail |
Front pages 📰 26 August 2023 |
Absent yet present: Trump’s debate impact |
Front pages 📰 29 August 2023 |
Isaac Newton Farris Jr.’s remarks 60th-anniversary March on Washington |
COVID-19: Should we start wearing masks again? |
Front pages 📰 25 August 2023 |
Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech sounded more like a snake oil salesman than a statesman |
Front pages 📰 24 August 2023 |
COVID boosters to be sold on the high street |
8 GOP candidates debate funding to Ukraine, Trump’s future and – covertly, with dog whistles – race |
(Not) over the moon about Vivek Ramaswamy |
Why thousands of Ukrainian refugees in the UK are now homeless |
Front pages 📰 23 August 2023 |
Front pages 📰 22 August 2023 |
Let’s protect nature, but not merely for the sake of humans |
Vaccine hesitancy is one of the greatest threats to global health – and the pandemic has made it worse |
Front pages 📰 21 August 2023 |
Front pages 📰 20 August 2023 |
Air pollution linked with global rise in antibiotic resistance |
Front pages 📰 19 August 2023 |
Front pages 📰 18 August 2023 |
Bibby Stockholm: Legionella is not the only health threat on the asylum barge |
Re-imagining democracy for the 21st century |
The Atlantic is at risk of circulation collapse – it would mean even greater climate chaos across Europe |
A monumental victory empowering women in Britain |
How gender inequality is hindering Japan’s economic growth |
Front pages 📰 17 August 2023 |
Contested memory in Giorgia Meloni’s Italy: How her far-right party is waging a subtle campaign to commemorate fascist figures |
Front pages 📰 16 August 2023 |
A little humble pie |
The official allegations against Trump are mounting |
Front pages 📰 15 August 2023 |
Rising methane could be a sign that Earth’s climate is part-way through a ‘termination-level transition’ |
Front pages 📰 14 August 2023 |
The looming catastrophe for the Tories |
Front pages 📰 13 August 2023 |
UK political landscape faces seismic shift in next election with Tories projected to secure only 90 seats |
Hiring refugees is not just ‘doing a good thing’ – research shows it can also help businesses |
Front pages 📰 12 August 2023 |
Front pages 📰 11 August 2023 |
Western firms still doing business in Russia finance the war |
Front pages 📰 10 August 2023 |
Sending UK asylum seekers to Ascension Island is a legal non-starter – if the government really is planning to do it |
How climate change might trigger more earthquakes and volcanic eruptions |
Front pages 📰 9 August 2023 |
The EU is making overtures for a post-Brexit defence collaboration with the UK – but London isn’t listening |
Memo to fellow journalists: Please don’t cover Trump 2.0 like in 2016 |
UKCA: A symbol of the folly of Brexit |
Tory MP tells asylum seekers to “f*** off back to France” if they don’t like barges |
Front pages 📰 8 August 2023 |
Meet your MP — Lee Anderson |
Front pages 📰 7 August 2023 |
The oil industry has succumbed to a dangerous new climate denialism |
Front pages 📰 6 August 2023 |
What you need to know about EG.5.1, the new COVID variant in the UK |
Britain’s next election could be a climate change culture war |
COVID cases rising, UK in the dark about virus future |
Twitter’s rebrand to X shifts the focus to Musk’s ‘everything app’ plans but here’s why he might have moved too early |
Front pages 📰 5 August 2023 |
Niger coup: West African union has pledged to intervene – but some members support the plotters |
Rishi Sunak’s green backtracking contrasts strongly with previous prime ministers’ efforts |
Front pages 📰 4 August 2023 |
We asked the British public what they really think about net zero – here’s what we found |
Another Trump indictment, the biggest one |
Front pages 📰 3 August 2023 |
The UK’s top financial influencers skew Conservative – which helps explain why Keir Starmer’s Labour is so anxious about uncosted spending pledges |
Homelessness in England has reached record levels |
Front pages 📰 2 August 2023 |
Sunak defends North Sea oil and gas licences |
How UBI could save the NHS billions |
How a COVID-19 survivor funded a crucial Indigenous gathering |
Front pages 📰 31 July 2023 |
How austerity made the UK more vulnerable to COVID |
Extreme weather events are exactly the time to talk about climate change |
Channel 4’s shocking Gregg Wallace: The British Miracle Meat owes much to Swift and his gruesome satire |
‘Performative cruelty’: The hostile architecture of the UK government’s migrant barge |
Goldsmith on Government’s green policies: Gove is a monster, Shapps is backward, Sunak not interested |
Better a diamond with a flaw than a stone without |
Sunak wants to balance Net Zero with pragmatism |
Elon Musk rebrands Twitter as X, ditching the blue bird |
Rwanda plan is in legal limbo, but history shows such migration deals are unlikely to disappear |
Greta Thunberg fined for climate protest in Malmö |
In having nothing to say about Rishi Sunak, new Tory MP Steve Tuckwell said it all |
By-election losses are terrible for the Conservatives – but there are glimmers of hope |
Long COVID’s brain fog: Impact of COVID-19 on memory |
Labour leads in latest YouGov poll on general election outcome |
UK gave £690,000 subsidy to Russian airline day after invasion |
Wagner is golden again... in Central African Republic |
How a repair centre empowers migrants in Amsterdam |
How the UK’s new immigration law will put more people at risk of modern slavery |
Theresa May: Illegal Migration Bill will hurt modern slavery victims |
The UK’s island identity has long shaped its political outlook – is that why it currently feels so adrift? |
Why we should all care about Ukraine’s grain crisis |
Ukraine War: Crimean bridge attack is another blow to Putin’s strongman image |
Events that never happened could influence the 2024 presidential election |
Lies, hypocrisy and distraction: The British media toolkit |
Lengthy off-air period looms for Huw Edwards amid BBC investigation |
Feline coronavirus and bird flu kill cats across Europe |
Riots show that France may be increasingly American (and I don’t mean McDonald’s) |
What we know about how Long COVID condition affects mental health |
A mother’s right: The battle for same-sex parenting in Italy |
The double punishment of Marcus Decker: A peaceful protester facing deportation after Brexit |
Minority ethnic politicians are pushing harsh immigration policies – Why representation doesn’t always mean racial justice |
The impossibility of an adult conversation about drugs in Scotland |
Here’s how much water it takes to make a serving of beef – and why where it comes from is so important |
Huw Edwards in hospital amid explicit images scandal |
The time has come today, and other rants |
The women warriors fighting fires and defending biodiversity in Borneo |
The challenges of living with Long COVID |
The self-destructive fate of programmers and coders |
The history behind Orkney’s vote to ‘join Norway’ |
Deadly CCHF virus: What you need to know about its symptoms and prevention |
COVID in kids: Younger children and those from deprived areas are at higher risk of being hospitalised |
China’s gallium and germanium controls: What they mean and what could happen next |
Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant: Experts discuss potential threats and safety measures |
NHS at 75: Problems abound but founding principles are unshaken |
The new Brexit consensus |
Top cities for quality of life: Vienna tops, UK cities slip |
It could cost the taxpayer £169,000 to deport each migrant to Rwanda – and possibly even more |
COVID: How incorrect assumptions and poor foresight hampered the UK’s pandemic preparedness |
Riots in France result in 719 arrests amidst continuous chaos |
How Thames Water came to be flooded with debt – and what it means for taxpayers |
Why UK court ruled Rwanda isn’t a safe place to send refugees – and what this means for the Government’s immigration plans |
Paris riots: When police shot a teenager dead, a rumbling pressure cooker exploded |
French football team calls for calm amid unrest |
Cabinet Office U-turns on Boris Johnson’s phone messages for COVID Inquiry |
Why so many people have had enough of experts |
Your energy bills are finally about to go down |
Sunak’s erasable ink pens raise big questions about transparency |
Putin seriously weakened by Wagner Group mutiny – but it was a missed opportunity for Ukraine too |
New Democracy party wins Greek election, securing second term for Prime Minister Mitsotakis |
John Kerry rejects Iraq war accusations in French TV talk |
The inside story of the vaccine programme’s battles with the Treasury |
Ecological doom-loops: Why ecosystem collapses may occur much sooner than expected – new research |
FU.1: The new COVID strain that could spark another wave |
EU flag ban sparks outrage on Brexit anniversary |
Why Labour is right to stop future UK oil and gas development |
COVID Public Inquiry exposes Government’s pandemic failures |
Why children in the UK should still be offered the COVID vaccine |
How the ancient Greeks kept ruthless narcissists from capturing their democracy – and what modern politics could learn from them |
Could post-Brexit Britain lead global AI regulation? |
Brazil reports fatal case of swine flu virus (H1N1) |
Why report into misleading parliament still matters, even after Boris Johnson resigned as an MP |
Sunak delays anti-obesity measure for two more years |
Government to consult on expanding its plan to reduce sewage dumping in wake of legal challenge |
Johnson the liar and bully who led a lying and bullying party |
Watered-down LGBTQ ‘understanding’ bill shows how far Japan’s parliament is out of step with its society – and history |
Brexit obsession left UK vulnerable to COVID, ex-Cabinet Office director reveals |
Iceland bans conversion therapy: A victory for LGBTQ+ rights |
How Putin’s anti-LGBTQ+ agenda is an attempt to build support for the invasion of Ukraine |
Boris Johnson breaks rules again by taking Daily Mail job |
Boris Johnson: Freed from the constraints of office, the former prime minister could be even more dangerous |
Experiment shows feasibility of beaming solar power from space |
Boris Johnson resignation: Why Rishi Sunak can’t afford to lose more than one of three impending by-elections |
Boris Johnson has triggered a bumper by-election bonanza – I studied 148 past contests to find out what we can expect |
Ukraine’s dam crisis: Humanitarian impact and conflict escalation |
Trump’s fate will be decided by 12 citizen peers, in a hallowed tradition of US democracy |
Boris Johnson’s claims about being ‘forced out’ of parliament are simply false |
Silvio Berlusconi: The property developer who became a media tycoon – and Italy’s most flamboyant prime minister |
‘We have to stop demonising oil and gas’, Jacob Rees-Mogg told UAE investment chief |
Trump delivers defiant speeches after his recent indictment |
Long COVID: Effects on fatigue and quality of life can be comparable to some cancers |
Caroline Lucas and the heavy burden of being a party’s only member of parliament |
What Ukraine dam breach means for the country’s counteroffensive and aid deployment |
A former President indicted |
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate: The most secure document storage facility in the world? |
Donald Trump facing seven federal charges concerning his handling of classified documents |
Is there a tipping point for Trump supporters to stop backing him? |
Prince Harry accuses UK Government and media of collusion |
The Budapest connection: Tory MPs met with Orbán and far-right groups |
Rishi Sunak is trying to hide from accountability |
Tory MP faces court over alleged racial abuse at Bahrain event |
What does high immigration mean for the government’s popularity? |
Cabinet Office accused of covering up Rishi Sunak’s involvement in “Eat Out to Help Out” scheme |
Punch-drunk Britain |
Home Office criticized for leaving 40 asylum seekers without accommodation in Westminster |
A regenerated 4th Estate must replace America’s market-driven 4th Estate |
McCarthy’s big baby steps |
Why UK inflation is so high compared to the EU and US, and what to do about it |
Plastic recycling is failing – How the world must respond |
Study exposes racial disparities in COVID fines |
The loophole that saved Liam Fox from a lobbying penalty |
How did ‘taking back control’ of borders become record-high net migration? |
40 new hospitals delayed until after 2030 amid safety concerns |
How to fly like a foreign secretary: A guide to luxury jets and showers |
Trump vs DeSantis, the 2024 GOP taste test |
Thousands of people in the UK are out of work due to long COVID |
A tale of two opinion polls |
What we know so far about reports of battles being fought across the border in Russia |
National Conservatism, self-pity, idiocy and English fascism |
Assault rifles, wind farms, immigration and hormones: Inside NatCon |
G7 summit in Hiroshima will force world leaders to confront the continuing nuclear threat |
Secret Abramovich football funding set to be investigated |
COVID ‘VIP Lane’: A WhatsApp tango between Matt Hancock and Tory donors |
Why a Labour-Lib Dem coalition wouldn’t cause electoral annihilation like their deal with the Tories |
Food prices are rising but farmers’ profits are still small |
Emmanuel Macron: A French president whose populist tactics are derailing his own career |
Zelensky’s European tour has won critical support for Ukraine’s counter-offensive |
Starmer’s transforming Labour into the Tories’ Mini-Me |
Why the West needs to offer Brazil, India, and South Africa a new deal |
Tories cry foul as Starmer says EU citizens should vote in UK elections |
Rees-Mogg changes tune on voter ID: It was gerrymandering all along |
Turkey election: Erdoğan and Kılıçdaroğlu face off in historic runoff showdown |
A painful picture for the Tories: Forecasting the general election from the local results |
Why three-day weekends are great for well-being – and the economy |
The not-so-blind trust: How ministers see their investments without looking |
DeSantis runs right to get ready for presidential run |
Helicopter rides and electoral annihilation: Rishi Sunak’s expensive commute |
Russia’s support base grows as countries continue to mix vodka with their politics |
I’ve worked in precarious jobs for more than 10 years – here’s what unions should do to support migrant workers |
GB News’ latest blunder: Allowing anti-vaxxer to run amok on air |
From crown to clowns: King Charles III’s coronation and the Tory distraction parade |
Americans have an enviably healthy attitude to Britain royalty |
“I’m always delivering food while hungry” – How undocumented migrants find work as substitute couriers in the UK |
Labour gains in local elections suggest the tide has turned in many marginal constituencies |
COVID is officially no longer a global health emergency – here’s what that means |
Scotland Yard shows contempt for peaceful protest, arresting republicans hours before coronation |
The English local elections and the Tories’ voter suppression tactics |
WHO declares COVID-19 no longer a global health emergency, after 3 years |
Drone ‘attack’ on the Kremlin – Logic suggests a false flag to distract Russians ahead of Victory Day |
Shouldn’t the French get with the script? |
Why the ‘oath of allegiance’ to King Charles III fails the test for being an oath |
Can Rishi Sunak save the Tories? Voting behaviour over time suggests it will take more than personal appeal to win the next election |
Swearing at the Kingzilla’s special day |
What does a good night look like for Keir Starmer’s Labour or Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives? |
Labour’s “Nick Clegg moment”? Keir Starmer ditches tuition fee pledge |
NHS Staff Council accepts Government’s revised pay offer, while other unions reject it |
Revealed: Government to legalise ‘hazardous’ accommodation for asylum seekers |
The Good Law Project takes on the Government’s ID requirements |
Questions about Wagner Group involvement in Sudan as another African country falls prey to Russian mercenaries |
Extinction Rebellion gave it ‘the Big One’ with a four-day peaceful protest – now what? |
Trump v DeSantis: How the two Republican presidential heavy-hitters compare |
Nuclear weapons gap and global conflicts: How the world is on edge in 2023 |
COVID Inquiry accused of ignoring families who paid the ultimate price |
King Charles III coronation: What the controversy over an ancient stone tells us about historical symbols in the modern age |
Experts urge Britons to wear face masks on public transport as new COVID variant spreads |
Illegal migration bill: Can the government ignore the European Court of Human Rights? |
Move over China: India takes over as the world’s most populous country |
All aboard the strike train! Aslef announces three 24-hour strikes |
Royally awkward: King Charles III’s ancestors were involved in the slave trade |
Outrage caused by China top diplomat reveals country’s true colours |
Britain’s Brexit degradation |
Five most prepared countries for the green tech transition |
Why a Biden-Harris reelection ticket makes sense for the Democrats in 2024 |
Why strike action is climate action |
Fox News dumps Tucker Carlson, CNN ditches Don Lemon — Don’t worry, there’s still plenty of anger-fueled outrage to go around! |
DeSantis descending? |
Twitter’s verification system now eligible for far-right organizations |
British public demands prison sentences for water company CEOs who pollute our waters |
Unpredictable COVID variants: Concerns and hopes for the future |
Behind the mess: A tragicomedy of power struggles in Downing Street |
Resigning is the new trend: Dominic Raab leads the way with 58% approval! |
Sudan: Violence between army and militia is a symptom of an old disease that is destroying Africa |
Dominic Raab is right that the government has set a ‘dangerous precedent’ – but not for the reasons he thinks |
Dominic Raab throws his toys out of Sunak’s sandbox after being accused of bullying |
Tory MPs accept £20,000 from director of climate science denial group |
Elon Musk’s cunning plan for AI |
The risk of nuclear war over Ukraine is real. We need diplomacy now |
Emergency alert system launches in the UK: Should you be worried about privacy? |
Teachers are quitting – Here’s what could be done to get them to stay |
Move over, Omicron: Arcturus is here to steal the spotlight |
The last 3 safe spaces from America’s gun violence |
Can Jeremy Corbyn go it alone in Islington North? What the evidence tells us |
Sanofi vaccine: What to know about this protein-based COVID booster being offered in the UK |
COVID origins debate: What to make of new findings linking the virus to raccoon dogs |
UK rolls out spring COVID-19 booster programme |
Elon Musk obeys ‘strict’ social media rules of Modi’s India. But not for America’s NPR |
Labour to be “party of business” and “most interventionist government in a generation,” says Shadow Minister |
‘Cracking down’ on antisocial behaviour is a classic pre-election strategy – But this government owes young people better |
Racism and the ugliness of Britain’s increasingly diverse politics |
Voter ID: Conservative MPs gave weak justification for law that could stop people voting |
Labour’s attack ads on Rishi Sunak: Gutter politics or smart election campaigning? |
Why democratic countries around the world are not prepared to support Ukraine – and some are shifting closer to Russia |
India - From defamation case to democracy erosion |
The UK’s unworkable immigration plans allow the government to blame others for its failure |
New COVID variant XBB.1.16 fuels surge in cases in India and causes conjunctivitis among children |
Ukraine war re-positions ‘the heart of Europe’ more eastwards... in Poland |
A national trial separation? |
Russian roulette? Tories are still accepting donations from Russia-associated donors |
Keir Starmer: Four lessons from History for an opposition trying to be the ‘government-in-waiting’ |
Macron stirs up trouble by asking Europe to take it slow with Taiwan |
20 years on, the false narrative of the Firdos Square Saddam statue toppling |
Three in five long COVID patients have organ damage a year after infection |
UN expert welcomes Vatican’s rejection of Doctrine of Discovery and urges governments to follow suit |
German and French tourists opt out of UK tourism due to Brexit ID regulations |
Ukraine war: The lessons from the Northern Ireland peace process |
The sewage scandal |
Finland’s election: What happened to Sanna Marin and what to expect next |
Perfect timing |
Air pollution can increase the risk of COVID infection and severe disease |
Finland joins Nato in a major blow to Putin which doubles the length of the alliance’s border with Russia |
A decade of polls suggests Scotland’s new first minister Humza Yousaf will struggle to deliver independence, just like Nicola Sturgeon |
Judge rules EU citizens’ data rights must be protected |
Number 10 admits Brexit affects processing at Dover but blames chaotic queues on mysterious ways |
Voter ID: A solution in search of a problem? |
Hostages of English nationalism |
Tragic milestone: Over 500 children killed in Ukraine conflict, says UNICEF |
Trump indictment timing |
King Charles’ portrait: Royal waste of money or priceless piece of history? |
Trump indictment won’t keep him from presidential race, but will make his reelection bid much harder |
Lula and the world: What to expect from the new Brazilian foreign policy |
Manhattan grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump, showing he, like all other presidents, is not an imperial king |
Follow the money: Donations to Tories via Carlton Club raise questions of dark money influencing politics |
Time to face the music... maybe |
Climate change is accelerating – and the UK government is ‘strikingly unprepared’ |
Rishi Sunak’s Goldilocks migration strategy: ‘Stop the boats’ and ‘start the legal’ passage |
Augmented profits |
A new era in Scottish politics |
Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Theresa May (and soon Nicola Sturgeon): the strange backbench lives of former national leaders |
Elon Valley Bank |
The £10k-a-day blunder: How MPs were duped by a fake firm |
Nitrous oxide ban: What the Dutch do in January, the Brits do in March |
Ban the ban |
Xi and Putin meeting signals the return of the China-Russia axis and the start of a second cold war |
How Black children in England’s schools are made to feel like the way they speak is wrong |
When the Daily Mail sees lawyers standing up for the environment, they get mad |
COVID pandemic: Three years on, and nobody wants to talk about it (and why we should) |
Day 2 of Xi Jinping’s visit with Putin |
Boris Johnson’s evidence to MPs’ partygate investigation: The key points of disagreement explained |
The impact of shortages on food aid supply chains |
Will Boris Johnson be grounded? The Privileges Committee decides |
Retirement rage: French fury fueled by reform |
This is not a photo, but AI can pretend it is |
Bank contagion |
A glimpse of racial bias progress within America’s news media |
IPCC report: Climate solutions exist, but humanity has to break from the status quo and embrace innovation |
Boris Johnson to face MPs over partygate – but what is ‘misleading parliament’ and why is it so serious? |
Windsor framework: Why Rishi Sunak was able to secure the Brexit deal that others couldn’t |
Investigation reveals millions wasted on unusable COVID tests |
Russia and Ukraine reach agreement on Black Sea Grain Initiative |
The real cancel culture is Tory cancel culture |
Don’t trust the news media? That’s good |
Silicon Rainbow |
Sue Gray quitting to work for Keir Starmer does cause problems for the civil service – It’s also a sign she thinks he’s heading for government |
Budget 2023: Government needs to show it can jack up growth to regain economic credibility |
The Gary Lineker controversy |
The UK now ranks as one of the most socially liberal countries in Europe |
Dribs, drabs .. or drips? You make the call |
Will the BBC regret suspending Gary Lineker? |
The people who care for and educate our children deserve better pay |
Three years on, the COVID pandemic may never end – but the public health impact is becoming more manageable |
Illegal immigration bill does more than ‘push the boundaries’ of international law |
Victory in Tbilisi: Protesters force ruling party to rescind law threatening Georgia’s EU membership |
Feeling special |
Boris Johnson no longer has the political capital to get away with giving his dad a knighthood |
Oakeshott and Hancock: Betraying a confidential source damages journalism and is a threat to public health |
Government finally publishes missing £248m ventilator contracts and reveals it hired a firm to destroy unused equipment |
Mexico protests: Fears for democracy prompt mass demonstrations |
‘Dear Rishi’ – The code words of British politics |
Good Law Project cannot appeal “Partygate” injustice |
Large numbers of Americans want a strong, rough, anti-democratic leader |
Windsor Framework: British public’s lack of interest in Brexit’s final piece |
Escaping the vicious circle |
Rishi Sunak’s Brexit deal: How the Stormont brake could block new EU laws from Northern Ireland |
Brexit Britain: Grow-your-own-salad country vs start-up nation |
The Government is still “considering” how to improve its Net Zero Strategy with just a month to go |
$1 trillion in the shade – The annual profits multinational corporations shift to tax havens continues to climb and climb |
Why Beijing has decided this is the year to ‘unify’ with Taiwan |
The battle for Britain’s post-Brexit polity |
Is the Marburg virus outbreak in Equatorial Guinea the next pandemic? |
War in Ukraine: Beijing’s peace initiative offers glimpse at how China plans to win the war |
Why supermarkets are rationing food and how to prevent future shortages |
Northern Ireland protocol: Why Tory backbenchers are rebelling over Rishi Sunak’s revised Brexit deal |
A year on, here’s what life has been like for Ukrainian refugees in the UK |
Russia announces its suspension from the last nuclear arms agreement with the US, escalating nuclear tension |
Biden’s visit to Kyiv sets the seal on a year of growing western unity and Russian isolation |
Met gets put on notice: Good Law Project challenges Matt Hancock investigation refusal |
Nicola Sturgeon resigns: The end of an era |
How much immunity do we get from a COVID infection? Large study offers new clues |
The Public Trust Doctrine: An ancient legal principle which could protect our environment now and for future generations |
How Brexitism is eating conservatism |
Nicola Sturgeon resignation: The unanswered questions for Scotland and the SNP she leaves behind |
The difficult sacrifice Biden’s age might force in 2024 |
Mysterious objects shot down over North America: Conflicting reports and speculation abound |
The Conservatives are gunning for our human rights |
Spy balloons: Modern technology has given these old-fashioned eyes in the sky a new lease of life |
Government commits to publishing £248m missing COVID contracts after breaching transparency guidelines |
Should UK transfer fighter jets to Ukraine? Expert urges caution |
Why the UK needs to rethink its decision to stop COVID boosters for young and healthy people |
QAnon is spreading outside the US – A conspiracy theory expert explains what that could mean |
The first Leopard tank arrived in Kyiv |
Three years of failure |
COVID-19 is driving the increasing need for lung transplants in the US |
There’s no delusion like Tory self-delusion |
We’ve got a lot to cover |
Who is assisting Turkey and Syria with earthquake relief efforts? |
Ukraine’s defence ministry corruption reshuffle marks a painful moment in an agonising war |
Cabinet reshuffle: Science experts react |
How climate change could fare in the UK’s new Department for Energy Security and Net Zero |
Politicians weren’t confident discussing Brexit |
Government deployed callous strategy of instilling shame and stigma to distract from own errors |
Sunak-linked hedge fund sees pandemic profits soar to £109m |
UK slides in corruption perception index after series of political scandals |
Are you ready for Boiled Raisin Cake as the Ukraine war drags on? |
Chinese spy balloon over the US: An aerospace expert explains how the balloons work and what they can see |
A ‘stop Brexit’ sticker and suffragette colours: it’s really not clear what can get you kicked out of parliament |
Brexit : Three years on, lies, deceit and delusion |
So Boris Johnson’s comeback trail, like that of Liz Truss, runs through Washington, DC? |
Untying Brexit’s toxic knots |
Levelling up: How UK freeports risk harbouring international crime |
Truss, who lost longevity battle to a lettuce, is on a comeback trail through Washington, DC |
Your mobile phone runs on Cobalt from DR Congo |
COVID-19 – A look at what happened in 2022 |
President Lula cold-shoulders Chancellor Scholz over sending military aid to Ukraine |
Holyrood’s death by a thousand Tory cuts |
REVEALED: Dominic Raab did use WhatsApp for official business, but Government didn’t retain a copy of his messages |
Labour accepted £12,000 from major polluter Drax |
Why Germany dragged its feet over supplying Leopard tanks to Ukraine |
Nadhim Zahawi sacked: Today’s Tory scandals are similar to 1990s sleaze stories in more than one way |
WHO urges countries to stockpile medicines for ‘nuclear emergencies’ |
Exxon scientists accurately forecast climate change back in the 1970s – What if we had listened to them and acted then? |
Antisemitism isn’t just ‘Jew-hatred’ – it’s anti-Jewish racism |
Why refusing public sector pay rises won’t help reduce inflation |
Mind the gap: HS2 will stop in Central London |
Tory MP to sue Matt Hancock over COVID-19 vaccine remarks |
Strange days |
Tory-linked think tank appoints ‘brazen’ climate denier as director |
Trump Biden documents reveal a true American democracy dysfunction |
Do women really rule the world? |
Majority of Britons say Zahawi must resign as Conservative chairman |
Tories testing the water over a different kind of NHS – Gordon Brown |
The ‘Kraken’ COVID variant XBB.1.5 is rising quickly in the US – Here’s what it could mean for the UK |
All politicians must lie from time to time, so why is there so much outrage about George Santos? |
Jacinda Ardern’s resignation shows that women still face an uphill battle in politics |
Is Jacinda Ardern’s short sharp goodbye a template or a telling sign of the times? |
How the ‘tripledemic’ is restricting cold and flu medicine supplies – and what to do if you’re affected |
Ukraine war: Kremlin’s campaign of misinformation keeps Kyiv and its allies guessing |
Prime Minister’s Quarrelling |
Majority of Britons think UK should maintain support for Ukraine |
How those who want to divide us use language to stoke violence |
Rainforest offset credits likely to be “phantom credits” |
COVID-19: A potential second winter wave? |
WHO: New COVID-19 guidelines on masks, treatments and patient care |
UK government and monarchy must apologise for slavery – Barbados ambassador |
UK government urged to honour its pledge to the families of Afghan refugees |
WHO urges China to provide more details about its COVID outbreak |
Boris Johnson set to publish a memoir of his time as Prime Minister |
Teachers vote overwhelmingly to strike |
NHS crisis: Underlying problems are starting to be addressed |
Starmer: SNP and Tories using Gender Recognition Bill for political advantage |
Decade of progress on making England’s homes safer threatened by austerity and the pandemic |
Why a faint line on a COVID-19 test does not necessarily mean that you are no longer infectious |
MEPs issue formal request to grill EU Commission president von der Leyen over COVID vaccine contracts |
How anti-vaccine misinformation hampers the conversation about genuine vaccine injuries |
UK avoiding a technical recession, not broader economic malaise |
These documents reveal abuses and breakdowns in rogue system of global diplomacy |
Why 2023 is a make-or-break year for Keir Starmer’s Labour party |
How COVID-19 actively suppresses and evades your immune system — Part 1 |
Rishi Sunak’s new law could force workers to break strikes |
How the soap opera around Prince Harry’s memoir will affect the royal brand |
Fragile Democracy |
Another Brexit year begins |
Brazil: Swift and robust response to the insurrection highlights the strength of democracy |
Never take Democracy for granted |
Democracy under attack in Brazil: 5 questions about the storming of Congress and the role of the military |
UK Politics: Tweedledrear and Tweedletrump |
The 2023 election calendar has some big ones |
Six common COVID myths busted by a virologist and a public health expert |
Simple arithmetic with Rishi Sunak |
Politicians are getting older – shutting young people out of decision-making around the world |
Where is the next COVID variant, pi? |
January 6 US Capitol attack: Deep state conspiracies haven’t gone away |
Kevin McCarthy: Why Republicans are preventing their own leader from becoming US speaker |
PMP’s Person of The Year 2022 |
Putin’s plan to stop Ukraine turning to the west has failed – Support for Nato is at an all-time high |
The long-term effects of austerity last for generations |
At Lula’s inauguration, did Bolsonaro ‘eat the last cannibal’? |
Pelé was ensnared by ‘Brazilian-style racism’ but stood firm as dictatorship tried to keep him playing |
What do politicians really think of economists? |
Brexit is slowly being discredited, but there’s still a long way to go |
Why aren’t children allowed to vote? |
COVID in 2023 and beyond – Why virus trends are more difficult to predict three years on |
Voter suppression: How democracies around the world are using new rules to make it harder to vote |
70 years of data suggest the Conservatives will suffer a big defeat at the next election |
He’ll be Congressman, not congressman-ish |
Matt Hancock’s Pandemic Diaries and the history of the redemptive memoir |
Calling politicians ‘clowns’ is a disservice to clowns |
REVEALED: The names of those who referred COVID testing firms into the “VIP” lane |
Christmas should be cancelled in December and moved to February 7 |
Three leadership qualities that Elon Musk’s replacement as Twitter’s CEO will need to have |
Post-Brexit Britain: A country broken by lies |
‘It’s like being in a warzone’ – A&E nurses open up about the emotional cost of working on the NHS frontline |
Why ambulance workers in England and Wales are going on strike |
Twitter has been important for disability activism – That’s being lost under Elon Musk |
World Cup 2022: Who won the prize for ‘soft power’? |
Oyster farm under threat from sewage dumping |
Asylum claim rejections show the UK government has little understanding of what people are fleeing – and it’s costing lives |
Universal free school meals would make a huge difference to the cost-of-living crisis |
There is a better Brexit strategy available to Labour |
What we know about new omicron variant BF.7 |
Six reasons Britain’s impending voter ID law is a bad idea |
Tory donor’s company awarded £4.5 million Government contract to take care of a mountain of unusable PPE waste |
UK strikes: Why the government must start mediating talks, according to negotiation experts |
Electric vehicles: If the UK is serious about being a major player, here’s what needs to happen |
Our politics is incapable of responding to the failure of Brexit |
If Trump is waning, what are his options? |
Mother of teenage girl who took her own life after watching disturbing content online is pleading for change |
Is Labour’s vision of a New Britain any different to the Tories’ levelling up? |
Why bullying in politics is a matter of democracy |
Winter of discontent: How similar is today’s situation? |
Investigation into the B̶r̶e̶x̶i̶t̶ UNBOXED festival |
Biden Rail |
The inevitable backlash |
The Brexit silence is breaking |
Trust in UK politics has taken a hit after recent chaos – and historical data suggests only a change of government can fix it |
Nurses’ strike is about more than pay – It’s about ensuring good care |
Chinese protests are about more than COVID – Student discontent has fuelled the biggest movement since Tiananmen Square |
UK supreme court rules Scotland cannot call a second independence referendum – the decision explained |
Britain is failing the Aid and Reconstruction Complex |
Donald Trump may or may not go away but Trumpism will remain |
Things everyone should know about COVID-19 (Part 2: Transmission & Protection) |
Long COVID stigma may encourage people to hide the condition |
Why UK universities are going on strike |
Bird flu: UK is seeing its largest ever outbreak – which may prove particularly deadly for wild birds |
Generational Gerrymandering? New voter ID requirements will disenfranchise young people |
Labour’s same old waffle on Lords reform |
Erratic Elon |
UK-France migration deal: How does Brexit factor into the plan to stop small boats? |
How Canada plans to break records with its new refugee targets |
An indictment wouldn’t end Trump’s run for the presidency – He could even campaign or serve from a jail cell |
Things everyone should know about COVID-19 (Part 1: Immune System) |
Why COP27 should be the last of these pointless corporate love-ins |
Twitter and Elon Musk: Why free speech absolutism threatens human rights |
How measuring attitudes to climate change could speed up the global response |
It’s Brexit, stupid |
Britain’s energy price cap left many people confused – especially Conservative voters |
Journalist arrests during climate protests show how the demonisation of protest threatens us all |
Resignation honours — What are they, why are they so controversial and can the system ever be changed? |
Wear a mask in public — Successive COVID infections increase health risks, new study |
Just Stop Oil, Rupert Murdoch and the M25 protest |
Creating a spectacle around people seeking asylum generates fear and chaos, not solutions |
Can’t pay? Won’t pay! |
Why some people think fascism is the greatest expression of democracy ever invented |
Post-election thoughts |
COP27: A year on from the Glasgow climate pact, the world is burning more fossil fuels than ever |
The state we are in 2022 |
Deadline looms for new Environment Secretary to respond to legal challenge against sewage dumping |
Zero deforestation in the Amazon is now possible |
China-bashing is being used to normalise mass-disability and loss of life |
COP27: Five things to expect from this year’s UN climate summit |
Braverman’s brutal Britain |
Goodbye Elon, goodbye. |
Britain and Belgium: Asylum crises as Albania slams the UK ‘madhouse’ |
Elon Musk insists he had “no choice” but to fire Twitter employees |
Midterms: Growing number of Americans believe political violence is acceptable |
Just Stop Oil joined thousands demanding a general election and action on the cost of living crisis |
Why Meta’s share price collapse is good news for the future of social media |
Business twit |
Suella Braverman’s colour-coded stance... all red, white and blue |
Enter Sunak, the fifth Brexit Prime Minister |
Is it legitimate for the Conservatives to continue in government without an election? |
This Halloween... trick or debt? |
Scottish independence: How Nicola Sturgeon’s pledge to rejoin the EU could impact a referendum vote |
MPs call for investigation into misuse of funds by a 55 Tufton Street charity |
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak: Who is he and how did he end up with the top job in British politics? |
Do not ignore COVID, experts say |
Rishi Sunak: Best of a bad bunch? |
Do radical protests turn the public away from a cause? |
The five causes of Liz Truss’s downfall explained |
The Tory lettuceship contest |
Why Liz Truss finally lost control of MPs |
Liz Truss becomes the shortest-serving UK Prime Minister |
Liz Truss’s government spewed hate about everyone, including tofu-eating people like me |
What happened in the night of Westminster chaos that triggered the PM’s resignation? |
Is Liz Truss really a symbol of Western democratic resilience as China crowns Xi Jinping? |
Glaciers in the Alps are melting faster than ever – and 2022 was their worst summer yet |
The best hope lies in this government’s hopelessness |
Liz Truss is now a case study in poor leadership |
Liz Truss and the best of British robotic libertarianism |
Why the ‘energy price cap’ is confusing |
This could open the door to fracking |
Liz Truss puts Britain on course to an uncivil war |
No child should be given access to that type of content |
The UK’s Homes for Ukraine scheme is failing both refugees and their hosts |
World Cup 2022: Qatar’s frantic countdown to a football tournament full of controversy |
Cognitive biases and brain biology help explain why facts don’t change minds |
Liz Truss’s unoriginal, unedifying and outdated plan for ‘Growth. Growth. Growth.’ |
What to do if your supplier takes you to court |
Preparing to win the next UK General Election |
Proof it’s the Supreme Court of ideology not a Supreme Court of law |
It’s not your dads’ GOP anymore, and never will be again |
Iran: ‘Hijab’ protests challenge the legitimacy of the Islamic Republic |
The week the wheels came off the Brexit Britain bus |
What Liz Truss’s Conservative party conference speech revealed |
Keir Starmer needs to tell a bolder story about Britain’s future to convince voters to back him |
Liz Truss’s ‘destructive’ plans have angered environmental groups |
When the strong help the weak, it makes us all stronger |
Kamikwasi, Librium Liz and the great British joke factory |
COVID inquiry: the UK government’s pandemic response was often not ‘guided by the science’ – yet now scientists are under fire |
Rats in a sack |
Is removing Liz Truss worth the risk? |
Liz Truss: Are the Conservatives facing an electoral meltdown? |
COVID-19: It looks like we are in for a bad October – Experts |
The Great Tory Merdefest |
Truss’s dead cat splat |
Why Labour will resist calls for electoral alliances, even when facing the prospect of a hung parliament |
The public shouldn’t pay to get the ex-PM off the hook |
Will Keir Starmer lead Labour back into government? |
Strange times |
Why Liz Truss is no Margaret Thatcher when it comes to the economy |
Mini budget 2022: Experts react to the new UK government’s spending and tax-cut plans |
Giorgia Meloni and the return of fascism: How Italy got here |
Back to the other Liz’s world. Shtum, imperious, foxy |
Survey shows Brexit vote has undermined support for the United Kingdom’s union |
Accountability and the prorogation of Parliament |
Children in England turning five will no longer be offered a jab – here’s why that’s bad news |
Putin’s mobilisation speech: what he said and what he meant |
Is it safe yet? |
Putin calls up more troops in Ukraine and threatens nuclear option in a speech which ups the ante but shows Russia’s weakness |
Understanding the rules on energy disconnection and prepayment meters |
Anti-monarchy protesters arrested – What the law says |
Putin’s failure in Ukraine will pave the way for China’s rise to pre-eminence in Eurasia |
Prince of Wales: Why William inheriting the title from Charles has sparked a debate |
What we mean when we say we are mourning Queen Elizabeth for the values she embodied |
There is no escape from history for Britain, its new king and the rest of us |
Notes from Normal-island |
Claiming the welfare benefits you are entitled to |
End of global COVID-19 pandemic in sight — WHO chief |
What Liz Truss’s government means for climate action |
King Charles inherits the crown with support for the monarchy at record low |
How Gorbachev’s fragile legacy of free speech has been destroyed by Putin |
Change and challenges: The rules governing the UK’s new Constitutional Monarchy |
Charles III and the future of the UK monarchy |
Why Charles is already king and other key constitutional questions answered |
Queen Elizabeth II: A moderniser who steered the British monarchy into the 21st century |
Queen Elizabeth II: The end of the ‘new Elizabethan age’ |
These two daunting challenges sit right at the top of the new prime minister’s in-tray |
Is the Truss cabinet’s visual diversity any more than just that? |
4 ways Boris Johnson tested the British parliament to its limits |
PM Liz Truss: A laser-like focus on delivery is needed after the chaos of the Boris Johnson years |
The shortest political honeymoon in history |
Understanding your energy bill support and discounts |
Liz Truss: Who is the UK’s new prime minister and why has she replaced Boris Johnson? |
Tory leadership race: Will Liz Truss’s tax cut proposals win her votes? |
Liz Truss may not appoint an ethics adviser – Does that really matter? |
It’s reassuring that summer was spent wisely planning for the coming COVID winter... or was it? |
Why clean, affordable water should not be in the hands of private companies targeting profit |
Cost of living crisis: The UK needs to raise taxes not cut them |
Channel crossings: No “soundbite” or “three word answer”. |
Will the UK experience blackouts? Three scenarios for this coming winter |
‘Tomato flu’ outbreak in India – Here’s what it really is |
Liz Truss, the last PM of the “big tent” Tory party |
Scotland’s Children’s Commissioner challenges Ofgem to protect children from fuel poverty |
Liz Truss’s Conservative chip pan fire |
‘Ukraine fatigue’? A Ukrainian mother-and-daughter story from London |
Long COVID: Why it’s so hard to tell how many people get it |
UK strikes: How industrial action at a major port could disrupt supplies of clothing, cars and canned food |
Public enemy number one |
What the leadership contest tells us about Brexit |
Misjudgement now could cost the Conservatives dear at the next general election |
Truss is a gift to the cause of Scottish independence |
For GOP, it’s Trump Road whether he runs or not |
Western countries are shipping refugees to poorer nations in exchange for cash |
Influential oil company scenarios for combating climate change don’t actually meet the Paris Agreement goals |
Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak want to crack down on migration – An expert reviews their plans |
Ofgem on notice of court action if it fails to comply with legal duties to protect vulnerable customers |
The ‘new world’ label is 600 years old and needs updating. |
Many people are still shielding from COVID – and their mental health is getting worse. |
New data reveals scale of waiting times for the EU Settlement Scheme. |
Gordon Brown economics versus Liz Truss tax cuts: A new twist in the battle to resolve the UK’s cost of living crisis. |
Salman Rushdie, the man who told stories about India. |
Liz Truss uses leftover vaccine donations to cut up to £300m in foreign aid. |
Context matters – How a teabag went viral for the wrong reasons. |
The jetset tycoon, the Tory council, and the missing £138m of taxpayers’ money. |
This is a cost of corporate greed crisis. |
The last white woman, Liz Truss. |
The return of the Yos! and Oys! – plus a new addition. |
Last week the Axis Of Autocracy was consummated. |
Liz Truss, craving for Vogue and attention. |
Our current COVID vaccines could soon be updated to target new variants. |
Hasta la vista, he wants to come back. |
How the FBI knew what to search for at Mar-a-Lago – and why the Presidential Records Act is an essential tool for future historians. |
New photos suggest how Trump, flush with power, may have sent official documents down the toilet. |
Is race an issue that might explain why Rishi Sunak is doing so badly among Tory members? |
Investigation into the government’s contracts with Randox Laboratories. |
Four ways Brexit and the loss of free movement have made life harder for mixed British-European families. |
Without a fresh new vision, the next Conservative prime minister risks leading their party to election loss. |
How might Labour’s Brexit policy be made to work? |
How teachers supported children and parents through COVID-19 school closures. |
Human rights and Tory wrongs. |
What ethical standards should we hold politicians to? |
How the monkeypox epidemic is likely to play out – in four graphs. |
It’s been 12 long, painful years of Tory governments... |
The Tory chancers trashing the rule of law. |
Monkeypox: An expert explains what we need to know. |
Boris Johnson is a bit like Churchill – but not in the ways he might want. |
How well or badly is the Government doing at responding to the rising cost of energy? |
Why are some so afraid of women, gays, trans, etc? |
Boris Johnson says his time as UK PM was ‘mission largely accomplished’. How does that actually stack up? |
Should I still go on holiday if I have COVID? |
London’s Olympic legacy: Why £2.2 billion investment in primary school PE has failed teachers. |
Truth now banned in government. |
Disability – The farce that is PIP. |
If you voted Tory for any of these 16 reasons, you made a big mistake. |
New revelations about gaps in the Met Partygate investigation. |
No bullsh*t, no exaggeration... American democracy becomes American autocracy in 2023. |
The fall of Boris Johnson: Any democracy should look to his case and ask if it is enabling machiavellian leaders. |
Quick summary of the ERG’s – sorry, your next Prime Minister’s plans for Britain. |
Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss head-to-head to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister – How their prospects compare. |
Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss? Polling shows party members want her – but the wider voting public would choose him. |
Conservative leadership election: Why tax cuts are an economic gamble. |
Boris Johnson’s ignominious end: The difference between ‘big tent’ politics and personalised populism. |
Thousands of Ukrainian children are joining UK schools, but some face issues obtaining school places. |
Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition: Will he or won’t he? |
Tory leadership hopefuls fail to address the reality that Brexit is a disaster. |
Sri Lanka’s protesters are demanding change. Here’s why. |
Boris Johnson’s claim of a ‘mandate’ from the people isn’t accurate. |
The Uber Files: Leaked documents reveal a strategy of chaos – has anything changed? |
Boris Johnson’s messy political legacy of lies, scandals and delivering Brexit to his base. |
Boris boosterism and bluster won’t keep Brexit Britain’s reality hidden forever. |
Stronger democracies have seen fewer excess deaths during COVID. |
What happens – and when – in the race to replace Boris Johnson. |
Survey shows British people, and especially Tory voters, feel very differently about some refugees than others. |
How the hostile environment is affecting EU citizens. |
What Boris Johnson said in his bitter resignation speech and what he really meant. |
Boris Johnson’s premiership – Worst resignation rate and one of the shortest tenures. |
Boris remade Britain’s image as a mussy-haired wannabe with a slippery sense of propriety. |
Boris Johnson’s nightmare day: How to read between the lines in resignation letters from government ministers. |
Long COVID: Female sex, older age and existing health problems increase risk – new research. |
‘Them’s the breaks’: Boris adopts an American accent. |
Boris Johnson’s reluctant resignation. |
Get Borexit done. |
Boris Johnson: Four key insights from recent polls can help us see where the crisis is heading. |
Boris Johnson: A terminal case of hubris syndrome. |
Pass the popcorn: The Tories are in meltdown. |
Scottish independence: What has changed since the last referendum. |
New Met Police legal action will get to the truth about the PM’s Partygate. |
I believe her. Mostly. |
In Iran, one man exercises complete control for his lifetime. In the US, it’s now six people. |
We shouldn’t be complacent to the potential threat of this, or subsequent COVID waves. |
Well, we are the people and we say yes. |
Government could be forced to come clean over VIP Test and Trace contracts. |
Human disruption to Earth’s freshwater cycle has exceeded the safe limit, our research shows. |
Abortion. Complicated? Or not? |
Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton by-elections: Even Boris Johnson loyalists will now be worried for the next election. |
The G7 has returned to being a gentlemen’s club. |
The Schools Bill: An attack on home-schooling that hurts children the most. |
Monkeypox may not mutate as fast as coronaviruses, but that doesn’t mean it can’t adapt to its new hosts. |
Northern Ireland protocol row could damage good faith needed for post-Brexit trade deals. |
Brexit is shaming Britain. |
Mapping the world’s refugee population. |
Tiverton and Honiton by-election: Rural communities are itching for the chance to cast a protest vote. |
A peaceful transfer of power in America? Yes, but... |
Commonwealth leaders gather in Rwanda as UK refugee plan focuses attention on human rights. |
Avian flu has jumped from chickens to wild birds and is spreading fast. |
Big Tobacco firms advertising on schools’ doorsteps. |
What Keir Starmer could learn from Neil Kinnock to capitalise on Boris Johnson’s woes. |
What is the European Court of Human Rights, and why did it stop a UK flight from taking off to Rwanda? |
The United States and mass shootings. |
The corrective enlightening power of the Juneteenth holiday. |
After years of breaking the rules, Boris Johnson must now hope his MPs won’t change the only one keeping him in office. |
Brexit is stuck, but is the secret coming out? |
Why the UK government’s plan to change the Northern Ireland Protocol violates international law. |
Government doesn’t know whether it will achieve its 2032 Net Zero target. |
Behind the scenes of Westminster – How government whips are losing their influence. |
The tactics Tory rebels could use to derail Boris Johnson. |
Petition — Introduce an independent body to enforce the ministerial code on ministers. |
Boris Johnson never took full control of the Tory party – uniting it now seems impossible. |
Inflation projections and the War in Ukraine. |
The War in Ukraine puts the brakes on global economic recovery. |
As the Beatles said, I say it’s my birthday. |
Conservative Party – Who are the rebels and why do they want Boris Johnson gone? |
After the confidence vote, what now for ‘Big Dog’? |
EU citizens told they can’t come home using just their European passports. |
The ‘greased piglet’ oinks again (for the time being). |
What the result of the confidence vote means for the PM and the Conservative Party. |
Boris Johnson ‘no-confidence’ vote: What happens next? |
A Tory vote of self-preservation. |
Vote of no confidence in Boris Johnson tonight. |
Ever wondered how the monarchy survives in Britain? |
Vaccination could reduce Long COVID symptoms, new research suggests. |
U.S. gun violence – We have to make it stop. |
COVID vaccines for children under five: What parents need to know. |
Why Britain really can’t afford to cut civil servants right now. |
Boris Johnson’s future: A philosophical exercise for wavering Tory MPs. |
Four reasons the Conservative Party should be worried about Australia’s recent election result. |
Partygate: How the Sue Gray report revealed the age of ‘government by WhatsApp’. |
The graywash. |
Boris Johnson: Why not taking responsibility degrades politics. |
‘Wine time Friday’ and invites for 200 – Five of the most interesting findings from Sue Gray’s partygate report. |
Sue Gray report – Why hasn’t Boris Johnson resigned? |
Senior leadership must bear responsibility – Sue Gray. |
Independence and democracy, or jingoistic authoritarianism. |
Monkeypox – We need to understand more about the transmission dynamics. |
Australia Elections – Scott Morrison defeated, Labor to govern in minority or majority. |
Parliament could burn down any day? Sell it. Turn it into a museum or a posh hotel. |
An MP claimed there’s no massive use for food banks in the UK – the evidence shows why he is wrong. |
Democracy is threatened in many ways. |
Home Office: Loved ones are left in limbo for months on end. |
The English dreaming of Peter Hitchens. |
Whiteness is at the heart of racism in Britain – so why is it portrayed as a Black problem? |
For all the bluster, Johnson and the Brexiters still have no realistic answer to the ‘Northern Ireland border’ question. |
Haven’t had COVID yet? It could be more than just luck. |
Anglo-British nationalism: Greater projection than an iMax screen. |
Help stop the great British public space sell-off. |
All government wants is for asylum seekers to be out of sight out of mind. |
Finland and Sweden’s desire to join Nato shows Putin has permanently redrawn the map of Europe. |
The State pantomime of Parliament. |
How the UK’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is 21st-century imperialism writ large. |
Government has more interest in allowing vulnerable children to be targeted by traffickers than tackling traffickers. |
Boris Johnson should be very worried about what 2022 local council results mean for the next general election. |
Brexiters are losing the post-Brexit narrative. |
Rooting out racism in schools. |
Russia may declare war on Ukraine on May 9 – and use it as a reason to double down on attacks. |
Long COVID in children is real and serious. There are treatments available... just not in the UK. |
Severe COVID is equivalent to 20 years of ageing. |
True diamonds that we refuse to properly acknowledge. |
Pursuing CSI justice for European citizens. |
Local elections are about the most important issues affecting our daily lives – Why do they always become a referendum on the prime minister? |
A fracking review suggests the UK has softened the precautionary principle since leaving the EU. |
How can Parliament discipline the PM? |
Six years of failure. |
Local elections 2022: Your complete guide to the votes happening across the UK. |
Every ‘journalist’ pushing the Starmer Beergate story must know it to be false. |
Explosive emails revealed at the High Court describe the UK Government’s COVID testing programme. |
Local elections: Survey gives Labour huge lead in London ahead of vote. |
Sinn Féin could become the biggest party in Northern Ireland on May 5 – What it means for power-sharing. |
Johnson’s removal will not alter the British democratic deficit. |
No, decolonising your bookshelf doesn’t mean getting rid of Jane Austen. |
Democracy undermined: How elections in the UK are changing. |
Private emails: It’s not the result we hoped for. |
Sometimes, “We told you so” is all that can be said. |
Meet your MP — Neil Parish |
Angela Rayner, porn in parliament and a depressing week for British politics. |
When it comes to a deadly virus, ignorance is not bliss – Experts. |
The Prime Minister has brought our democracy into disrepute – it’s time to restore some pride. |
The power in front, beside, and behind. |
Emmanuel Macron is reelected but the French are longing for radical change. |
Boris Johnson dragging the Tory Party into the sewer – Angela Rayner. |
Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron go head to head: Why many French voters will be voting against a candidate rather than for them. |
Suffocating democracy in a Tupperware tub. |
COVID in children is not mild. |
Partygate: Is Boris Johnson lying? |
Just Stop Oil: Protests will be even more disruptive if they kick off panic buying. |
Boris Johnson’s bad behaviour: How declining trust in the prime minister affects trust in British democracy. |
Post-Brexit Britain is going rotten. |
Research says Omicron lasts much longer on surfaces than other variants – but disinfecting still works. |
Why we can’t ‘boost’ our way out of the COVID-19 pandemic for the long term. |
Putin’s retaliatory list is a badge of honour. |
Who gets to decide when the pandemic is over? |
Disabled people trapped waiting years for vital home adaptations. |
UN refugee agency ‘firmly’ opposes UK-Rwanda offshore migration processing deal. |
British voters want lying politicians to face consequences. |
People who’ve had COVID appear more likely to develop diabetes. |
Sweden and Finland eye the Nato option, but it’s a security dilemma for the west. |
COVID-19 is an airborne hazard – we need to treat it as such. |
Peek-a-boo Brexit. |
Omicron XE is spreading in the UK – A virologist explains what we know about this hybrid variant. |
Salmonella cases linked to Kinder products. |
Boris Johnson fined by police over partygate. |
As Marine Le Pen makes it to second round, the left-wing vote is what troubles president Emmanuel Macron. |
Should we worry about the XE variant? Maybe not yet, but ‘hybrids’ will become more frequent as COVID evolves. |
Nestle and the business of morality. |
What is a non-dom? |
Economic fallout from Ukraine war could give Le Pen’s social-populist strategy an edge. |
New COVID wave a reminder the pandemic is far from over. |
My five-year-old is now eligible for a COVID vaccine – Should I get them immunised? |
Government tells schools: Dump lateral flow tests. |
Nataliia: “I fear I will never see my husband again.” |
A democratic fix for an increasingly autocratic Supreme Court. |
A telling story about Putin’s state of mind from a European diplomat. |
What game theory can tell us about how Ukraine-Russia negotiations might go. |
Petition — Boris Johnson: Don’t scrap free COVID testing and isolation! |
Confusion abounds. |
Vladimir Putin: A risk-taker who is gambling his country’s future. |
P&O Ferries: How some companies can afford to break the law. |
Caught COVID? What you should and shouldn’t do when self-isolation isn’t mandatory. |
COVID numbers are spiking, yet still no public health messaging. |
None of the Prime Minister’s phone messages prior to April 2021 can be searched. |
No staff turnover at Chornobyl. |
Is Brexit being ‘cancelled’? |
Tories: Displacement of responsibility as a golden rule. |
Prejudice and discrimination masquerading as spiritual support. |
Delaying care now will overburden healthcare much more! |
Reason Johnson is unfit for office number 9,999. |
How Russia is using intellectual property as a war tactic. |
The sacking of 800 P&O staff shows just how precarious UK jobs can be. |
Performative politics is gaslighting post-Brexit Britain. |
What can China do about Ukraine and will it do it? |
Saving pounds vs saving lives. |
It’s time for an end to cronyism. |
The Ukraine War shouldn’t make Americans more appreciative or grateful. |
Ukraine: What might happen if the war spreads to a Nato country. |
As COVID rises again, the UK Government’s only plan is denial and distraction. |
The Home Office’s bureaucracy has been destroying people’s lives for decades. Increasing it isn’t the way forward. |
Four experts examine the big successes and failures of the COVID response so far. |
Ukraine and Brexit: Reminders, lessons and hopes. |
Refugees don’t need visas. |
COVID-19 shrinks our brains – PM: Nothing to see here... Freedom day! |
Ukraine: The UK is failing to meet its obligations under the 1951 Refugee Convention. |
COVID doesn’t affect kids? |
EU as a Line of Defense for Ukraine? |
Bear faced hypocrisy. |
Uptake of children’s COVID vaccines is low in the UK – and their slow, confused approval is to blame. |
Covid isn’t over. |
To avoid an American war, Ukraine must be Poland, not the Rhineland. |
Ukraine – It’s all about one person. |
Refugee protection means more than just saying words of support. |
Russian opposition to the invasion of Ukraine is giving Putin cause for alarm. |
An open letter to Tucker Carlson. |
The dogs that caught the car. |
The best-laid plans of mice and men... and Putin and his gold. |
As Putin puts nuclear forces on high alert, here are 5 genuine nuclear dangers for us all. |
Ukraine’s military is outgunned but can still inflict a great deal of pain on Russian forces. |
Sanctions can still make a difference – but only if done right. |
It’s time to fight Putin! – Garry Kasparov. |
Iceland: Mass infection will lead to mass disability – Experts. |
Why we must talk about ‘protections’ being lifted, not ‘restrictions’. |
Eight changes the world needs to make to live with COVID. |
Mugged by reality. |
For Russia, it’s all alt... even its tsar. |
“Make Brexit Work” is the only way forward right now. |
Lifting all restrictions. The lunatics really are in charge. – Experts. |
COVID: Lifting the remaining measures is a dangerous and senseless move. |
British nationalism means power is never held to account. |
Royal finances – Our money and theirs. |
Time for the UK to say goodbye to drive-throughs for the sake of our environment, our health, and our culture. |
Are Trump’s followers standing back and ready again? |
High Court rules Dido Harding and Mike Coupe appointments were unlawful. |
How the Home Office spends money hurting people. |
UK-Russia – You can have freedom or corruption, not both. |
The world pre-2020 no longer exists. |
PM resignation – A show of hypocrisy. |
Boris Johnson exposes the weakness at the heart of a ‘good chaps’ rule of government. |
Cost of living crisis – Historical evidence suggests voters could quickly turn against Tories. |
Our meat obsession is destroying the planet – The solution is to change how we see animals. |
Lifting self-isolation, a profound mistake. Again. – Experts. |
Russia, Ukraine, Schrodinger’s cat and our interconnected world. |
How warfare language is being used to demonise asylum seekers. |
4 key takeaways from the ‘partygate’ investigation into Boris Johnson’s Downing Street. |
Vulnerable children are still waiting for vaccination, and many are being infected while they wait. |
Boris Johnson pledges to ‘fix’ Downing Street after partygate – but this is a failure of his leadership. |
Legal advice: Government can’t ban the use of facemasks in schools. |
Westminster: Where it’s a bigger sin to call out a liar for lying than it is to lie. |
All too predictable. |
The Sue Gray report. |
Vaccinate the kids! |
‘All the world’s somewhat corrupt and men and women merely players.’ |
Do not oversimplify Long COVID. |
The Week in Tory – Friday 28 Jan. |
Boris Johnson polling is now so bad that it makes sense for Conservative MPs to get rid of him. |
England’s plan B restrictions are lifting – but are some measures here to stay? |
Some surprising actors want the Yankees in their backyard. |
Partygate, populism and Brexit. |
Don’t believe the claim that only 17,371 people have died from COVID in England and Wales. |
President Biden. A ‘meh’ first year? |
Johnson is a symptom of a chronically sick Westminster. |
Boris Johnson: Sue Gray’s report may prove the final straw for angry Conservative MPs. |
Lockdown schooling: Research from across the world shows reasons to be hopeful. |
A linguist analyses Boris Johnson’s apology. |
Will Truss press the re-set button? |
Where (and how) you are most likely to catch COVID. |
Removing all restrictions clearly isn’t guided by the science – Experts. |
COVID-19 SAGE update, 13 Jan 2022. |
‘In the name of God, go’: The history of a speech that has brought down parliament and a prime minister. |
How to oust a Tory leader: The rules explained. |
Face-coverings to remain a condition of carriage on TfL – Sadiq Khan. |
COVID-19 SAGE update, 7 Jan 2022. |
Nobody told me this was against the rules – Boris Johnson. |
Omicron: Viral load can be at its highest at day five so cutting isolation period doesn’t make sense. |
How dare scientists do something to prevent more deaths in the UK! |
Trapped between a rock and a party place. |
Downing Street party: What the law actually said about work gatherings in May 2020. |
Is the party over for Boris Johnson? This polling detail suggests it could well be. |
Boris Johnson’s Downing Street party apology: Three key takeaways. |
Brexiters now worry about the judgment of history. |
What are the symptoms of omicron? |
How to make sense of the UK’s new testing rules. |
A consultant anaesthetist who refuses to take a vaccine? |
You don’t end a pandemic simply by declaring it over. |
UK bird flu outbreak: Risk of wider infection in the general public remains low. |
Capitol assault: The real reason Trump and the crowd almost killed US democracy. |
Why transmission among the triple-vaxxed shouldn’t alarm you. |
Home Office’s flawed and dangerous “scientific assessments” put children claiming asylum at risk. |
Schools are stuck in 2020 too. |
Masks in schools is not a matter of opinion. It works. |
Brexit returns to its roots. |
Life after COVID: Most people don’t want a return to normal – they want a fairer, more sustainable future. |
The NHS and social care are beyond full stretch. |
21st century Britain: Still the ‘emancipated empire’? |
Latest COVID 🦠 |
Far too early to say we don’t need to worry about omicron and hospitalisations. |
This Christmas we managed to frighten ourselves into deep gloom. |
Omicron is likely to hit deprived areas the hardest. |
The meaning of Christmas, according to Natalie. |
Omicron. The worst part of the pandemic before it ends in 2022. – Bill Gates. |
Omicron: What the next few weeks will look like. |
Thoughts on a dreadful year. |
Brexit: What the UK/EU customs changes mean for businesses from January 1. |